BOF: 55
A 30-year-old male presents
with several weeks history of blood and mucous diarrhoea. He has a frequency of
bowel movement of 8 times during the day and has to wake up 3 times at night to
have a bowel movement. Unprepared flexible sigmoidoscopy shows an inflamed
colonic mucosa. A feature that will show that this patient has disease affecting
the right colon would be:
a)
Serum albumin level of less than 30 g /l
b)
CRP of greater than 100
c)
Thumb printing on plain abdominal x-ray
d)
Distended loops of small bowel
e)
A tachycardia of greater than 100 per minute
